Analysis of Divine Ego
It started with the open eye inside the prism.
It ended with a wormhole through ancient beliefs.
Logic based thought now seems to be narcissism.
Both can be true, and I can’t find relief.
Hidden planes connect us all,
It’s thinking God is “we.”
It also implies the Ego is tall,
No “I” and “You”, just only “Me”.
Freedom is belief in life after death,
Uniting others to see we are One.
I’ll treat others as myself until my dying breath,
But maybe it’s delusion and I’m real up-spun.
We are all born of stardust and connected to space.
It’s wonderous and ponderous and mind blowing,
Knowing we look Creation in its great face.
Is it true divinity, or a narcissist’s mind flowing?
I said we are all One, which implies that I’m alone.
I’m only sure I exist, so I questioned what was real.
I claimed to be God in the flesh, now I’ve been sent to atone.
My intention was empathy, understanding what others feel.
Understanding myself helped me feel what you do,
And I only did what I thought God would.
Now I can’t tell if I have any screws loose,
And I’d time travel to fix it if I could.
If I exist, then God should as well.
I followed spiritual teachings
Yet it feels like I’ve been through Hell.
Ironic, because it’s God I was preaching.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI XJXJ KXKG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 1101010101010 11010111001 10111111100 1111011101 1010111 110111 1100101011 11011101 1010101101 0101011111 111011011101 110101001111 111111001011 1101000110 10110100111 1110100101110 1111111011101 11011011110111 111110011111101 101011000101101 0101111111 0110111111 11111111011 01110111111 110111111 110100010 11111111 01001111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,286 |
Words | 263 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
While learning philosophy and theology, I ran into a problem of it making sense while also seeming like ego inflation/delusions of grandeur. It also seemed blasphemous and like I was stuck between feeling damned and divine.
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